If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy

And not only that but the $5.6 billion Bush asked for to pay for the "surge," it was a lie too. From CBO:

CBO estimates that costs would range from $9 billion to $13 billion for a four-month deployment and from $20 billion to $27 billion for a 12-month deployment...

In the best case scenario, this will be a four-month deployment. That means the cost will be around two times what Bush claimed.

To top all of the above, off in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee today General George Casey told the committee that only half the troops Bush is proposing would be needed to stem the violence in Iraq.

This is pretty much a textbook case of the "clusterfuck" in action. Nobody knows what to do so they run in circles and scream and shout and make up shit to sound like the know what to do. If this latest revelation doesn't cause some feces to hit the rotary ventilator I will be truly disappointed.